While Sliced Bread takes a break we serve up ... commentators and people who were directly involved. How do they view things now and what, if anything, could have been done differently?

We’ve all heard the phrase, “the greatest thing since sliced bread,” but where did it begin? It was an inventor named Otto Rohwedder who knew he could improve on the whole loaf of bread.

But the top candidate for replacement is “greatest thing since sliced bread.” It almost seems a joke to us, but pre-sliced bread was a breakthrough of light bulb proportions. In the early 20th ...

Taking "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped", the Chillicothe Baking Co of Chillicothe, Missouri, proudly put on sale its Kleen Maid Sliced Bread', on this day ...